Organic ShivYog Jaggery Powder 1kg

The same jaggery, ground

Identical cane, identical kettle, identical okra clarification — this is the slab in a form you can measure with a spoon.

Why it dissolves clean

Drop it in water and it should disperse slowly into faintly cloudy liquid with no residue at the bottom. A chalky white sediment means added chalk powder or bicarbonate left over from chemical clarification.

We clarify with okra mucilage instead. Boiled-down bhindi juice is a long-chain polysaccharide that binds the suspended soil, fibre and plant protein into clumps heavy enough to lift off as scum — the same job sodium bicarbonate does, without stripping the molasses fraction that carries the iron, magnesium and flavour.

That is why this powder is brown rather than pale gold, and why it tastes of something.

Powder or slab?

Powder for cooking, baking, and anything you need to measure. It dissolves instantly and there is no chipping involved.

Slab for tea and for eating a piece after a meal, and because less surface area means it keeps better through humid months.

Roughly, powder substitutes 1:1 for sugar by weight in most Indian cooking, though it browns faster — worth watching in baking.

Narmadapuram, and the farm

Grown on ShivYog organic farms, which follow their own traditional cultivation practice alongside organic certification. That is provenance, not a health claim. What is testable: plant-based clarification, certified organic field, batch lab-testing.

Keeping it

Powder is more hygroscopic than the slab — more surface, more moisture pickup. Airtight jar, cool dark cupboard, refrigerate in the monsoon. Six to eight months.

If it clumps, it has taken on humidity. Harmless; break it up and seal it better.